_Mony a thing's made for the pennie_, i.e.Many contrivances are thought of to get money.

The addition is, "As the old woman said when she saw a black man," taking it for granted that he was an ingenious and curious piece of mechanism made for profit.
_Bluid is thicker than water_ is a proverb which has a marked Scottish aspect, as meant to vindicate those family predilections to which, as a nation, we are supposed to be rather strongly inclined.
_There's aye water where the stirkie[147] drouns._ Where certain effects are produced, there must be some causes at work--a proverb used to show that a universal popular suspicion as to an obvious effect must be laid in truth.
_Better a finger aff than aye waggin_'.

This proverb I remember as a great favourite with many Scotch people.

Better experience the worst, than have an evil always pending.
_Cadgers are aye cracking o' crook saddles_[148] has a very Scottish aspect, and signifies that professional men are very apt to talk too much of their profession.
The following is purely Scotch, for in no country but Scotland are singed sheep heads to be met with: _He's like a sheep head in a pair o' tangs._ _As sure's deeth_.

A common Scottish proverbial expression to signify either the truth or certainty of a fact, or to pledge the speaker to a performance of his promise.